The case for promoting economic growth is that it correlates really well with increases in living standards. We don’t say that ‘increases in living standards lead to economic growth.’ Why isn’t this the case? Consider this passage from Murray Rothbard: Man has found that, through the process of voluntary, mutual…

When we say that natural selection is a ‘miserly accountant’, as Richard Dawkins put it, we frame evolution as penalizing any wrong move. But I see Dawkins as saying that natural selection is a accountant. Not everything is an adaptation, meaning that every change produced by natural selection doesn’t necessarily…